CVE-2026-72919: Rocketchat Rocket.chat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rocket.Chat is an open-source, secure, fully customizable communications platform. Prior to 7.10.14, 8.0.8, 8.1.7, 8.2.7, 8.3.7, 8.4.5, 8.5.2, and 8.6.1, the channels.convertToTeam REST endpoint allows an authenticated registered user with the create-team permission to convert an unrelated public channel by supplying channelName instead of channelId because the edit-room permission is checked only for channelId. This issue is fixed in versions 7.10.14, 8.0.8, 8.1.7, 8.2.7, 8.3.7, 8.4.5, 8.5.2, and 8.6.1.

Affected products

• Rocketchat Rocket.chat: before 7.10.14 (fixed in 7.10.14); from 8.0.0, before 8.0.8 (fixed in 8.0.8); from 8.1.0, before 8.1.7 (fixed in 8.1.7); from 8.2.0, before 8.2.7 (fixed in 8.2.7); from 8.3.0, before 8.3.7 (fixed in 8.3.7); from 8.4.0, before 8.4.5 (fixed in 8.4.5); …

Published 2026-08-10. Last modified 2026-09-09.